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The winter power outage of 2021 cost lives, caused hardship and taxed Texas resources. Now we’re in a summer that has already produced record …
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Blockbusters are finally coming back to movie theaters. But the buzz is elsewhere in Hollywood. Streaming services are upending the film indus…
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Hosts Alison Dagnes and Lawrence Eppard are joined by economists Heidi Hartmann and Ariane Hegewisch to discuss the gender pay gap in the Unit…
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Consumers emerging from pandemic restrictions and returning to grocery store meat counters cannot fail to notice rising prices for beef produc…
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In a recent flight from Texas to North Carolina, a woman came so unglued that she tried to open the plane’s door. The flight crew had to bind …
Millions of Americans appear to be echoing the words of the Johnny Paycheck song “Take This Job and Shove It.” This is a sentiment that is cha…
It was, let us say, an interesting weekend for democracy.
In Homer’s “Iliad,” the story of the war between the ancient Greeks and Trojans, the Greeks used a secret weapon, the Trojan horse, to vanquis…
I’m old enough to remember when, along with lowering the debt and deficit, anti-protectionism and so-called “family values,” a strong oppositi…
For the first time in 62 years of dictatorship, Cubans are, indeed, no longer afraid.
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